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tv   Generation Change Kenya  Al Jazeera  December 19, 2022 1:30am-2:01am AST

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cadel seats can reduce cows, methane emissions like 10 percent. far from this feedlot, environmentalists are angry with the bite administration for agreeing to legislation, prohibiting federal agencies from measuring methane in agriculture, bowing to demands by the agribusiness lobby. this administration's a business approach to measuring and reducing emissions from laughing at agriculture undermines their credibility and international climate forums. meanwhile, back in california, the cows are munching away, seemingly happy and hopefully less gassy. rob reynolds al jazeera davis, california. ah, this is out to sara and these are the top stories. argentina have won the football well cup of the beating france and a thrilling final hair cut off 2022 thousands of fans pack straits to see the team
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parade with on though. how's the sale but a thought. they beat france on penalties after the game ended 334, a extra time is a crowning moment. far to tina's capitalism, missy giving a 3rd part of his country. treason is with fans. and what is ours? we behind not getting tired. yeah. let me, i think indeed the thing jen, i'm being told that there's like at least. c when taken on, matters of people get paid this my when right in the center of the 50, in the center of last night, a late when people participate in a bank and they will continue to go to court on time. let me tell you about it. you can see what's happening. i know it's like my dog's life. i a lawyer representing peruse form of preston, says petro castillo, is willing to give up his bid to return to office. in order to stop protests,
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kasteel was impeached and detained on charges of rebellion and conspiracy this month, protest as of since demanded his release and early elections. at least 20 people have been killed in the unrest. to news is opposition is calling for the president to step down or to less than 9 percent of voters turned out for parliamentary elections opposition parties boycotted, the polls which had the lowest turn out in more than a decade. actors and rights groups are calling on iran to release a claim actress terminate, and they do see she was arrested on saturday. she had been calling on the international community to intervene or to the execution of a young protest and thousands of people and garza have attended the funerals of 8 palestinian migrants who drowned off to new zealand coast nearly 2 months ago. we were trying to reach you by boat from libya. well, those are the headlines. more news here in al jazeera, that's after generation change.
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ah, now g 0. where every who eat africa's largest economy, kenya is an african powerhouse. and home to a $1000000000.00 taxi. it was 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high youth employment, storing living costs and a widening gap between rich and poor. i'm m. m righty and it comes to kenya to meet 2 activists from the countries capital nairobi. been fighting for social justice to come by think police violence. they both want to empowered their communities and make them safer. welcome to generation change
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a global theories attempt to understand i'm telling the idea that mobilized me around the world. ah, though it's sunday i'm going to hear the kids are in dines over, which is like from right that. and this is an important settlement, but it was like the country's largest dental site. what was it like for you growing up there? so one of the challenges the getting a not just with on initially mean my but didn't know where you can find out that much enough was a rent and food into vacation. that's way too much of a sick of because she was engaged in drug abuse of and on that any
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chevy, anger, dying. and that left us the little was left up everything going. so how old are you and your mother passed away? i was 16. and what happened then i ended up will have that done, say to a, make it simple immunity. it's a place where when it comes in, it wouldn't, doesn't have a place to go or scabbing gene or collecting trash so that they can, i can get something to eat now, euro and that's what your notes with. what was the transition like from being on the dumb, fired walking dead to being an artist and doing what you do now? so when i was of the dumps, it tells us treat shop. so even people are calling me that those glucose is that up for as though they give me that type of food. so i know i did to julianne at that time. he was sort of very hoping that was going around dorothy, seeking the places and people tell them, need to find the se it out,
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but the need to find that you need to find a diode. okay. claudine came down before me under the transition, was dutch. i to nanny, came up about a project for the underwriter on that sort of the transition. so maybe the dumb said, started getting up was to know how much yes. ah, how they're working on it on site, but it's as icy. whenever they demonstrate you feel like you are vocal as you are in a dark place where people don't appreciate you don't have a voice, nobody cares about who you are. so initially, for me was laker, i mean a while to where i'm fixing a lot of social advices whenever i'm sick, nobody cares if i, if i have a good fall, nobody cares this nobody to share. what were to have those performing for their bye?
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very early in the morning. if you find them i just there are so i was seeing them as the, as the real audience my ceo for i still young. good job 0. he supposedly were country cars. so broke, i wanted to talk to you by an area code, you've done quite a few songs about extra judicial killings and the police for killing people who live here. i lost 3 friends. so i, when i was on the dumb side because of extrajudicial killing, they were beaten up and the mr. la fontose, i was so mind they was, i was ugly. so that's where a b a started becoming more, we need to go into social issues, talk the not anything that would be a warranty or not a not dying dirty bumping or you well. and there's also an organization called and left to kenya, which you work in,
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and you do these projects with young people. can you tell me a bit about what you do with them? ok soon. of course it does. it is a community based organization that works with kids from the age of 522 to 17 or 20 . so that did the same busy. don't end up sunday society. special advice is kids come in today? ah, we do music class days, drama class. this avoid, she can play games with the kids together. we have managed, identified o'clock, 100 plus new times of course, seen so many artists. it has been more often than even in year, back to us is that it will not, it still got it go . and here you crew founded the military social justice center, which aims that tackling a form for structural violence. can you explain
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a bit about what made you want to stop and organization our vaughn in my diary and i grew up in my parish faith. the 2nd biggest law mean. okay, now i love my body. you know, i was a happy child and when i became an adult is when i could see now the violence that the people in my community ludwig throat cove, i'd say the police brutality. if police came names, the lack of clean water. so growing up in missouri is a lot of like growing up in a village where everybody knows everybody. so when something happens to one of us, really fin it. so the killings in particular there were too much. it was just too much. so to challenge that, we formed mother social justice center. and were there any person experiences that you lived in missouri that made you want to start the organization?
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yes. um. my own brother was killed by police in tor 72. 08. was the election violence in china, and that with a lot of other young people that i have grown up, we've been killed. and this is my, just my story, this story of many young people in the day. you either have a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police when you're a, when now i was fired them at, sorry sir. just a 2nd for can you tell me about the wire for you today today? here? anybody received this from the community on different areas that to be a why came on to bring justice to the community to members. mostly if it gets as of police brutality of people who have been arrested with not enough reason.
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kisses of didn't a bit violin. we have a community engagement, like watching film, planting, trees, community clean knobs, community demonstrations. and every time we meet at the center, we have to sing. oh, because live an interview that comes when things get into just i just on to continue watching this spot. ok. thinking just this and dignity of people with i wanted to ask you about the time in 2020, when you were a protest against police brutality and you resisted arrest from 3 armed police officers. and it was a huge reaction because the video of this happening went by will and lots of people saw it a modem of how was that experience to you? and were you surprised by the reaction that ago?
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yes, i was surprised that even went viral. i didn't know it was going to be that impactful . i've got that really not with that, i am a woman that was able to stand up for myself, made the young man in my community. he more emboldened to stand up for themselves it men and feel more powerful. i also have to say that at that very moment, it is the pain of every mother i have walked with in thinking. just as for the sun, every case i have documented every single possible i have seen the lose their lives in michael me to a give me as friend to say that this was enough and it's killing how hot you're still in.
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so 10 dash. thank you so much for being here today. when we think about the issues that are facing young people, it's interesting that 75 percent of the people in kenya are under the age of $35.00, but only 40 percent of youth is registered to vote in the recent elections. why do you think it is that so few people registered to vote here in kenya under the age of 35. i think i saw one form of resistance from the people from the 8000000 tenants who did not come to warrant. i think they was saying that they do not want to be a part of their they wanted a system that works for them. and on the other hand, i think one thing is important because it's the only way we are going to was someone who could walk for us. but i think it was very loud that they use that tired of this system of oppression. and what do you think the us, how did you feel about the election and how did young people that, you know,
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speak about the election? remember before election, you know, we were in a crisis of coffee 19 and of course even the government who previously there was not even doing a lot to the people. they were just making the people followed because there was not a lot of confuse people. people are not going to job. so when it comes to people now been told to vote, they were like not the same government, they didn't care about. that's why they getting know, they don't respect all voices. they don't hear what you say, but they want us to do one d c. and that's, that's how we feel. laker. if our vote is not powerful, it doesn't change anything. you also feel that sense of apathy towards the system. i know because women void t fin the country god, independence with little change. look at the community where i come from. it's still the same poverty from before. so people are beginning to like when i mean it, why do i even go to work?
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it doesn't change my life in any way. how do you bring about change if you withdrew from the system as it exists now? how can you amplify issues the masses? he mice. i think we need an alternative system that says p paul at the very core of the issues we are trying to address ah, how we need to bring about changes, organize ourselves as the youth and advocate with one voice as one girl among the issues that might actual as i philip, we shouldn't take a backseat and watch and complain and say this is them. doesn't work for us. this before corrupt is and we actively organize against that system together. i know that you both care a lot about extra judicial shillings in kenya around the world. there are conversations around police brutality and deaths at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extra judicial killings? the we are miracle that in the hashtag. blacklist, marta,
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i think it martin most encounter because her personally of last 20 plus or friends. most of them was killed by police and her mom justice. and initially this is just specific, only done dora. so if you imagine how many happens each and every day in my diet, in canberra, in, in either streets. so it's quite a very, very big issue that hasn't been happening and are we haven't been getting a solution. and wonder how would you explain it. and now as of british colony, when we got independence, the police so is that we're serving the colonial government did not change our wouldn't domain as i became president of can. or he continued with the same police force that the colonial government was using. and therefore, i thing on that they have practice is the new trauma they would cost up on the people to present the financed living in informal settlements. ah,
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when george lloyd was killed, 13 earliest miles killed in our community. and when we planned the protests, it was the 1st time i saw kenneth's soul invested in tattling. matters of excited to shootings in the country. usually we will hold our demos in a informal settlement. i've enjoyed flight kills can connect, said at their struggle in the u. s and i struggled out he and came out in the lodge numbers to say we demand on into extra additional killings. so police officers have justified 72 percent of the kennings that have happened alleging, but they were result of anti crime operations. and i wanted to ask within the communities, is there a slight tension there to some people maybe not have sympathy when somebody who was committing a crime dies at the hands of the police and how do you respond to that? yes, that happens. but i think in, so we live in a country that prides itself in upholding visual overall. why do we have all this
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said is, if someone has been found doing something wrong, can we have a law before not can we have them arrested and took into court and prosecuted instead of the police deciding to be the judge and the jury and executioner. because this is what happens most of the time. and this is a crime not just in can now, but everywhere else i do not think police have a right to take away anybody's life when days a law that can be followed. for me, the biggest issue has been the quality. they are not treating people who sim like we have been having news like a us a sudden pos, almost got her. ah, took mindful day for the government to the se in these governance on news. but then not been killed. why is it that in where we leave and, and order that someone are just all a form was mind and a criminal criminal according to the law. so the, we need to,
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we need to put it clear that it needs to be an, an equal thing that we feel like it's not if it's not true. and equally antonucci dash, that was the case of coven billionaires. like some people in government had stolen be liam's men. to me, to get the federal court with one thing in the country. during this period, there was also a lot of poverty in their communities and actually police did not as with the car, would be an anti spite. having been a protest is the people protesting against the billionaires that were actually arrested. but what dash is saying is there is a distinction between people who are failing to survive. and people who are telling from the people, because their government told from the poor in that particular infant, which led them to ally grooves. when you say that you're fighting for justice,
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what does justice look like? fear? so for me, justice means this, this consistently, the point she didn't seem they said this is like following the law. when the boys killed the police wonder, remember that the french additional killing to you are not given upon me to be the by the police to conduct a fundraising class to get funds to do the by the way in which, why you haven't congested because that but almost came, landed wrong to you are not given upon me to. so of course this, no, just there for the fight fight jesse's that people should be treated equally. that for justice means to and what about you under what does justice lie to you and when you're fighting for that, what is it you're thinking about? my brother was killed by police. justice ideally would look like me getting back my brother. but that is not possible. so injustice would look like preventing people from losing their loved ones. still only thing that would make sense for me. the
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only reason we are fighting that is killings, midst of soul can do not have to move through unnecessary pain caused by the bullet . so has there ever been a time that you have seen justice in action in kenya with regards to, you know, police killings. if there was a case who are falling of bad, oh, physical mending fission ah, brought up police station who killed some one in the police fish and drowned them enough drum full of water and i the inmates could see that. and when we documented this case together with international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions wearing t shirt and just his full my team call me. and they ignite mand when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. and that was the 1st day i saw just this in auction in this country. and i want to move the conversation
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a little bit and some other areas i know you care about. i want to specifically also talk to you dash about music. it feels like it is really a lifeline view. so for me, music is life. i feel like the way people have a power like the the police have the gun and the feet ball for the gun. so for me, if you fall full and have music because it's part of my life, last year we had a case, a very beginning and order. we are. apaloosa was looking for a sudden thief. then the southern thief, wind running, he went to his friends and some of defense for not thief. so the police ended up killing everybody and they did us all. it was all about stop extrajudicial killing . we did coincides to that and our community justice center. my dad is social justice centers and all that. and we, we've got justice through, through the power of the odd and we've got new, new police and other, any other names of people or any other example of the culture art or music you have
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to be powerful or inspiring in kenya. i've listened to nasa mine and the song, mississippi, god damn about police brutality, they forgot that identified. and it became a big issue for the black people over there. they went to a protest singing that song, made them feel so powerful. and nina, herself, felt lay her lakeside mall relevance when she would thing to advance the struggle of love people. what's your thing about them is so very relevant today in the us and also in our communities in countries back home. and i wanted to ask social media, it's done a lot in terms of sharing messages to do with activities. and how important do you think that has been for you? and can you more generally, in terms of amplifying messages, like the ones you care about? most? mostly i've been using social media as last sort of like a proof. and whenever you have social media,
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it's easier to even tell people like this. these are part of the things that they have done as well. and, you know, they, sometimes she had issues with the police when they wanted to late. that is how may force. and we also that because of social media. so this musician when it's a little bit more powerful, and so many people who are inspired by high just because of this story. and this is because of the social media, it has even happened. both the been in the street someone is being arrested and it's using social media to tell people that he has been noticed and, and he hasn't done anything for i have said that social media have played a very, very big role in terms of documenting issues. when jerry, you use youtube to teach are kind of alternative history and i wanted, if you could, me a little bit about why you've done that. i love history. i think history is very liberating. when you get to read me, know and understand. i think present a the ration is quite disconnected with our very glory as history of the past. for
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example, my community, my, my home in my diary has been around for a 100 years. it's been a century of survival and resistance since 1920. my very has been existing think it's the oldest ghetto in can now. so we've had a president from 963 who have done something to change their fate of the people of mulberry. but they did not. this is where structural violence comes in. that the people of malaria continued to be neglected and continue to be exposed to the system. systemic violence of social injustice this sol. when we understand as young people where we are coming from, it will be very easy to, to create the kind of future we want now for our children's children and simon, any thus, i know you care a lot about your community. and i want to hear from you directly,
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what is it that you're proud of in terms of where you are from and what your identity is. so, of course, i'm proud of myself as shit from from where i've come from and where i am. i managed to to go over 1010000 kids well and in defend their new talents among the successful stories that they have. is that over 50 young girls, the kind of end up being and dropping out of school i li, pregnancies. but we have managed to get them out of such issues also with of proud of 4 of the defies that have gone through in ensuring that things are right. this phone that they have done and all that as a final note. what is it, despite all of the issues that you have seen that makes you get up every morning to fight for a better day? why is it that you continue to do what you're doing? well, i guess my going is knowing that i 5 and i'm doing my little thing towards contributing to the betterment of society. play one guy i said to
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everybody around the one was a little thing towards making the wall a middle place. so that is my little thing and i'm happy doing it. there is no less work up every morning to ensure that what i'm doing. i'm not even paid or anything. it's just because i need to see a good future. i need to see a better lender. i need to see a better kenyon i need to put to not leave the live that i have lived. so that's a less wake up every morning for me to check kids with a family and also for the future of can
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be there are 50000 women in ukrainian military of which 10000 are on the front lines. after russia invaded ukrainian february, there was an increase in women volunteering to join the military and ukraine. unlike men, women are not obliged to register for mandatory military service, but that could be changing very soon. ukraine is considering making military service mandatory for women with specific skills, but said a decision would not be made until next year. for now, there are enough female volunteers willing to join many like 25 year old katya.
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view it more than just a job, or i'm a patriot of my country. i cannot sit on my hands and do nothing in a country fighting a war and training new soldiers, no matter what their gender landmark case has been sent, shock waves around the world. it's enormous it's phenomena historical and paved the way for the potential to penalize climate in action is the way a wakeup call for the government. this is really something that can make a turning point or thrice, meets the citizens using the mo, to hold governments and corporations to account if they don't want to do it by asking, then let's go to the court. the case for the client on a jesse. when much day arrives, the green army comes to life, but football is not all they shout about a club where societies disenfranchised,
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